Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of major benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) as we are going to migrate to it ? Thank you in advance Regards H.Motamedi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090912/e7b520c1/attachment.html>
hadi motamedi wrote:> Dear All > Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of > major benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 > (Enigma) as we are going to migrate to itBenefits are in the eye of the beholder. Red Hat Linux 7.x is about 8 years old, and has been a discontinued and unsupported product for about 6 years, which means no security updates or anything. It also won't have any support for any new hardware since it was disccontinued circa 2003. CentOS 5, based on RHEL 5, is a current actively supported product. Its built with a much newer kernel, newer versions of all the major components (GCC, glibc, apache, php, python, mysql, postgres, X windows, gnomee, kde, lvm, md-raid, etc etc etc.
hadi motamedi wrote:> Dear All > Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of major > benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) as > we are going to migrate to it ?Red hat 7.2 is very similar to RHEL 2.1, I migrated a bunch of systems from RH 7.2 to RHEL 2.1 because of this back in 2003, then to RHEL 3 in 2005. So read the release notes for: RHEL 3 RHEL 4 RHEL 5 And add up the differences. nate
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, hadi motamedi <motamedi24 at gmail.com> wrote:> Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of major > benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) as > we are going to migrate to it ?The major benefits of upgrading, as I see it are: (1) Ongoing support and security (2) New software packages and more recent versions of many old ones The major drawbacks are: (1) Support for some older hardware is gone (2) Several packages have been discontinued or replaced with inferior alternatives [*] (3) Any custom software that depends on libc5 is out of luck [* due to stricter licensing constraints]